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A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance

Note 750 — from the Origins To the Renaissance (continued 7)

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This game is described in the (very coarse) fabliau of the "Sentier batu" by Jean de Condé, fourteenth century:

De plusieurs deduis s'entremistrent Et tant c'une royne fistrent Pour jouer au Roy qui ne ment. Ele s'en savoit finement Entremettre de commander Et de demandes demander.

Montaiglon and Raynaud, "Recueil général des Fabliaux," vol. iii. p. 248.

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